MSN6026 Unit 6 Discussion Latest 2019 January

MSN6026 - Biopsychosocial Concepts for Advanced Nursing Practice II

Unit 6 Discussion

Finding Evidence to Help Create Health Policy Proposals

When developing proposals of any type, it is important to support them with relevant and valuable evidence. For your Unit 6 Biopsychosocial Population Health Policy Proposal assignment you will be creating a health policy proposal that seeks to improve the outcomes for a chosen population for a specific health care issue.

Before you complete your discussion post, think about what population and health care issue you would like to write about for your assignment. You can use this discussion to help pre-write and plan aspects of your assignment if you use the same population and issue.

In your initial post, address the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for initial postings found in the Faculty Expectations Message (FEM).

Define a population and a health care issue related to high-quality outcomes and care.

Briefly propose (in 2–3 sentences) a health care policy that could improve outcomes for your chosen population and health care issue.

Identify, and explain the relevance of, at least two pieces of scholarly or professional evidence that could be used to support the approach to, the need for, or the value of your brief proposal.

Be sure that you use appropriate APA style to cite your references.

Response Guidelines

In your response post, address the following. Be sure to follow the requirements for response posts found in the FEM.

Provide a constructive critique of your peer's brief proposal, as well as how the evidence they presented supports their proposal.

Learning Components

This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:

Describe a new policy to improve outcomes for a specific population.

Explain how a new policy will help improve outcomes for a specific population.

Identify contemporary evidence (from within the last five years) relevant to a specific topic.

Use evidence to support claims.